Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House High Jinks. Emerging from cob-nosed Clarence Cannon's Appropriations Committee, the resolution touched off a long, loud partisan debate with many a tongue in cheek and many a wink. It is only "common courtesy," said Mississippi's Jamie Whitten, to invite the Administration to indicate where...
Plumber & Prophet. The six-time Titleholders champ (1937, '38. '39, '48, '53, '55) worked hard to prove herself a prophet. She had started out "putting like a plumber," but on the second round she bore down, scored a fine 71 (one under men's...
Among the early Marquises de Portago, one helped to drive the Moors from Spain, another conquered the Canary Islands, a third sailed with Conquistador Pánfilo de Narváez unsuccessful expedition to Florida. The current and 17th Marquis de Portago does his dangerous living in the world of...
¶ After equaling the world's indoor record for the 60-yd. dash (6.1 sec.) in a semifinal heat, Olympian Ira Murchison nosed out the Army's Ken Kave in the finals in 6.2 sec.
Looking around for a tough uncommitted officer to handle the strike and its expected wave of assassinations and counter-bombings, Lacoste chose tall, hawk-nosed Brigadier General Jacques Massu, commander of the 10th Parachute Division. Massu moved in a rock-hard force of 20,000 green- and red-bereted paratroopers...